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MODERN LITERATURE (1600-1798)
The Canonization
- JOHN DONNE
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For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or chide my palsy, or my gout,
My five gray hairs, or ruined fortune flout,
With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honor, or his grace,
Or the king's real, or his stamped face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.
Alas, alas, who's injured by my love?
What merchant's ships have my sighs drowned?
Who says my tears have overflowed his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veins fill
Add one more to the plaguy bill?
Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move,
Though she and I do love.
Call us what you will, we are made such by love;
Call her one, me another fly,
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We're tapers too, and at our own cost die,
And we in us find the eagle and the dove.
The phœnix riddle hath more wit
By us; we two being one, are it.
So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit.
We die and rise the same, and prove
Mysterious by this love.
We can die by it, if not live by love,
And if unfit for tombs and hearse,
Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;
And if no piece of chronicle we prove,
We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms;
As well a well-wrought urn becomes
The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs,
And by these hymns, all shall approve
Us canonized for Love.
And thus invoke us: "You, whom reverend love
Made one another's hermitage;
You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes
(So made such mirrors, and such spies,
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That they did all to you epitomize)
Countries, towns, courts: beg from above
A pattern of your love!"
The Canonization
Summary:
The speaker asks his addressee to be quiet, and let him love.
If the addressee cannot hold his tongue, the speaker tells him to criticize him for other
shortcomings (other than his tendency to love): his palsy, his gout, his ―five grey
hairs,‖ or his ruined fortune.
He admonishes the addressee to look to his own mind and his own wealth and to think
of his position and copy the other nobles.
―Observe his Honour, or his Grace, / the King‘s real, or his stamped face /
Contemplate.‖
The speaker does not care what the addressee says or does, as long as he lets him love.
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It is a personal poem. He wants others to leave him alone to enjoy his love in peace.
The poem is in the form of dialogue between his friend and the poet.
The poem is a tone of cynical parody. This poem is ideally platonic (friendly)
This poem is the poet‗s love for Anne more.
It is based upon paradox, a self-contradictory statement.
The speaker asks rhetorically, ―Who‟s injured by my love?‖ He says that his sighs
have not drowned ships, his tears have not flooded land, his colds have not chilled
spring, and the heat of his veins has not added to the list of those killed by the plague.
Soldiers still find wars and lawyers still find litigious men, regardless of the emotions of the
speaker and his lover.
The speaker tells his addressee to ―Call us what you will,‖ for it is love that makes
them so.
He says that the addressee can ―Call her one, me another fly,‖ and that they are also
like candles ―tapers‖, which burn by feeding upon their own selves ―and at our own
cost die‖.
In each other, the lovers find the eagle and the dove, and together ―we two being one‖
they illuminate the riddle of the phoenix, for they ―die and rise the same,‖ just as the
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phoenix does—though unlike the phoenix, it is love that slays and resurrects them.
He says that they can die by love if they are not able to live by it, and if their legend is
not fit ―for tombs and hearse,‖ it will be fit for poetry, and ―We‟ll build in
sonnets pretty rooms.”
A well-wrought urn does as much justice to a dead man‘s ashes as does a gigantic
tomb; and by the same token, the poems about the speaker and his lover will cause
them to be ―canonized,‖ admitted to the sainthood of love.
All those who hear their story will invoke the lovers, saying that countries, towns,
and courts ―beg from above / A pattern of your love!”
Form
The five stanzas of ―The Canonization‖ are metered in iambic lines ranging from
trimester to pentameter; in each of the nine-line stanzas, the first, third, fourth, and
seventh lines are in pentameter, the second, fifth, sixth, and eighth in tetrameter,
and the ninth in trimester.
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